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Solution deployment stuck at "delploying" stage

• Monday, November 16, 2009 2:26 AMsaiyan0123

   
  

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  Hi,
  
  We attempted to deploy a couple SharePoint solutions and they are both stuck at "deploying (scheduled at ...)" and we could not figure out how to resolve the problem.
  
  Here is the background story on what led to this problem.
  
  We have a SharePoint 2007 Form Server running on Windows Server 2003 hosting various sites such as help desk for intranet use.
  Since we never created a development/staging server for SharePoint, our management decided to create one using the production SharePoint server as the blue print so all future development of SharePoint solutions can be done on the development server first.
  
  The development server is a virtualized server created by our administrator using VMWare tools to replicate the production SharePoint server.
  
  After the virtualized SharePoint server was created and given a different domain name, I noticed that its SharePoint Central Admin page is still pointing to the original SharePoint server although I can manually type in the correct domain name in the URL to connect.  However, the databases used by the virtualized server is still the same production database used by the original SharePoint server.
  
  Because I didn't want to make any accidental changes to the production database used by the virtualized server, I asked our administrator about re-creating the virtual server with a clean install Windows 2003 and then I will install SharePoint 2007 and re-configure everything manually.  However, the admin suggested me try to "uninstall" SharePoint 2007 on the virtualized server and see if that would give me the clean Windows 2003 environment to start over.
  
  So I agreed to do that but that turned ou to be a mistake.
  I uninstalled SharePoint 2007 Form Server and Windows SharePoint Server components in "Add or Remove Programs" in the control panel.
  
  After SharePoint 2007 is uninstalled on the virtualized server, we noticed that solutions previously deployed on the production SharePoint server all became "Not Deployed".  As the result, several Infopath form templates used for intranet sites such as help desk request no longer load properly.
  
  I attempted to re-upload the form template and deploy other solutions that need to be deployed and that is how we are stuck at the solution deployment stage.
  
  Our administrator attempted and restored both the production SharePoint server's system drive image and databases used from previous day's backup but we continue to have the same problem.
  
  It would be greatly appreciated if anyone can provide information on how this problem can be resolved.
  
  Thank you very much.
  Jason

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